I admit I don't know exactly what steps to take in this direction, at this juncture, except, as you say, to keep making the point as loudly as I can that there is another way.
... and this part here, its not a hammer, its a bell. There's other parts of the strategy that might swing enough weight to smash something to smithereens ... this requires a bit more of a judo approach, using the weight and momentum (and therefore difficulty in moving nimbly) of the opposition against them. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
